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KLAVA is a Finnish prog band with their debut album Polku released in the late 2019. Their music is psychedelically flavoured jazz-rock with some folk touches as well. Reminds me of the classic TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI with Nik Turner /Hawkwind reminding woodwinds and psychedelic atmosphere. The line-up in its various phases have relations to prog bands such as VITKASTE, DASPUTNIK and UZVA. The vocals, both by male and female, are in Finnish.
 (The following is taken from a longer biography on the band page klava.band)

Klava was born in 2004 in Helsinki. The core of the band has always been a trio where drummer Henri Tuomi and guitarist Kalle Kuisma have been complemented by a bassist that has changed a couple of times over the years. Klava mk III was born when guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Joonas Hietala joined the band as a bassist in the autumn of 2008. With regular rehearsing and active giggin as Klava’s playing evolved into more flowing, steady and swinging, also saxophone player and multi-instrumentalist Sini Palokangas joined the group. The new Klava sound began to take shape – the musical natural talent of Joonas and Sini added more tonality and melodic richness to the songs.
       The band’s music has always been flexible and breaking its own limits. Klava Mk III line-up also made improvised gigs. When another saxophonist, Jussi Hurskainen, joined, a handful of songs began to be ready for recording. In December 2010 they went to a rehearsal space studio in Turku for ten days, and recorded nine tracks for the album. When Joonas left the band in the spring of 2012, Klava went to sleep and put the album on ice. In the summer of 2014 Kalle was a resident artist at a house of his friends – in the silence of the countryside, under bright stars. There, the album started to breathe again and the tracks were added with guitars, vocal parts, percussion, sound effects and more. Klava continued their active rehearsing and the line-up gained new edge with the addition of brilliant folk musician Ringa Koskinen, who quickly found her place in Klava as a singer and playing jew’s harp and overtoneflute. The motivated new line-up was in full swing when the band was joined by Ayhan Akgez (flute) and Susanna Salama (alto saxophone). The recordings were finally finished and Eclipse Music – a jazz and prog label from Tampere, Finland – showed interest in releasing the album. The mixes were finalized by the band by the summer of 2019. 
Here are some of the album tracks:
Polku         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YRRrrS1Lx4
Arvoitus       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YbqMIq3jHw
Tuulille         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-lytSJr4s
Or better still, the whole album can be listened via this Finnish review: https://kulttuuritoimitus.fi/kritiikit/kritiikit-levyt/kannattaako-taydellisyytta-tavoitella-arvostelussa-progeyhtye-klavan-albumi-polku/
And a live video     http://klava.band/en/videos/

Edited by Matti - March 19 2020 at 03:03

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Matti Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 15 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 2072	Post Options Post Reply Quote Matti Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Klava (FIN) > Jazz-Rock/Fusion Posted: March 19 2020 at 00:32
	KLAVA is a Finnish prog band with their debut album Polku released in the late 2019. Their music is psychedelically flavoured jazz-rock with some folk touches as well. Reminds me of the classic TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI with Nik Turner /Hawkwind reminding woodwinds and psychedelic atmosphere. The line-up in its various phases have relations to prog bands such as VITKASTE, DASPUTNIK and UZVA. The vocals, both by male and female, are in Finnish. (The following is taken from a longer biography on the band page klava.band) Klava was born in 2004 in Helsinki. The core of the band has always been a trio where drummer Henri Tuomi and guitarist Kalle Kuisma have been complemented by a bassist that has changed a couple of times over the years. Klava mk III was born when guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Joonas Hietala joined the band as a bassist in the autumn of 2008. With regular rehearsing and active giggin as Klava’s playing evolved into more flowing, steady and swinging, also saxophone player and multi-instrumentalist Sini Palokangas joined the group. The new Klava sound began to take shape – the musical natural talent of Joonas and Sini added more tonality and melodic richness to the songs. The band’s music has always been flexible and breaking its own limits. Klava Mk III line-up also made improvised gigs. When another saxophonist, Jussi Hurskainen, joined, a handful of songs began to be ready for recording. In December 2010 they went to a rehearsal space studio in Turku for ten days, and recorded nine tracks for the album. When Joonas left the band in the spring of 2012, Klava went to sleep and put the album on ice. In the summer of 2014 Kalle was a resident artist at a house of his friends – in the silence of the countryside, under bright stars. There, the album started to breathe again and the tracks were added with guitars, vocal parts, percussion, sound effects and more. Klava continued their active rehearsing and the line-up gained new edge with the addition of brilliant folk musician Ringa Koskinen, who quickly found her place in Klava as a singer and playing jew’s harp and overtoneflute. The motivated new line-up was in full swing when the band was joined by Ayhan Akgez (flute) and Susanna Salama (alto saxophone). The recordings were finally finished and Eclipse Music – a jazz and prog label from Tampere, Finland – showed interest in releasing the album. The mixes were finalized by the band by the summer of 2019. Here are some of the album tracks: Polku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YRRrrS1Lx4 Arvoitus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YbqMIq3jHw Tuulille https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-lytSJr4s Or better still, the whole album can be listened via this Finnish review: https://kulttuuritoimitus.fi/kritiikit/kritiikit-levyt/kannattaako-taydellisyytta-tavoitella-arvostelussa-progeyhtye-klavan-albumi-polku/ And a live video http://klava.band/en/videos/ Edited by Matti - March 19 2020 at 03:03

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	Found the bandcamp link which has the album info: http://eclipsemusicrecordlabel.bandcamp.com/album/polku Will take it to the team.

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	This is really good, and very much my cup of tea. Thanks Matti for bringing it up!
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DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17455	Post Options Post Reply Quote DamoXt7942 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 19 2020 at 17:43
	They've already been suggested in Psych / Space Team for a long while before ... in their "unsigned" days. https://progfreak.com/Klava-104650.html?path=pa/recent